Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Masao Yoshimura, Chen Yoshimura LLP

8 pending office actions • 3 clients • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§102 only2 (25%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
50% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA 1 100.0% +0.0%
WILHELM, TIMOTHY 1 78.6% +11.8%
MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 1 71.4% +30.1%
ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 1 80.6% +14.3%
GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR 1 74.3% +15.5%
UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J 1 62.2% +9.6%
SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT 1 57.9% +16.8%
QIN, JIANCHUN 1 69.4% +14.0%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18362291 WEARABLE DEVICE, MOVEMENT INFORMATION ACQUISITION CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 29d overdue
18679359 DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION AND MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA 70d

Interview Candidates (6)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18462517 BICYCLE FOR RIDE PRACTICE AND BIKE FRAME THEREFOR WILHELM, TIMOTHY 42d overdue
17987216 PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM RESONATOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR 31d overdue
18362291 WEARABLE DEVICE, MOVEMENT INFORMATION ACQUISITION CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 29d overdue
17694412 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD QIN, JIANCHUN 4d overdue
18364287 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 21d
17826073 METHODS, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT 70d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36482
28372
28481
36141
28311
36191

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18679359 DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION AND MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA 2848 §102 Final Rejection 70d Pending May 30, 2024
18462517 BICYCLE FOR RIDE PRACTICE AND BIKE FRAME THEREFOR Vitamin I Factory Co., Ltd. WILHELM, TIMOTHY 3614 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18364287 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Casio Computer Co., Ltd. MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 3648 §102 Final Rejection 21d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18362291 WEARABLE DEVICE, MOVEMENT INFORMATION ACQUISITION CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM Casio Computer Co., Ltd. ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 3648 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
17987216 PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM RESONATOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. GONZALEZ, JULIO CESAR 2831 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2022
17847599 ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD THEREFOR Casio Computer Co., Ltd. UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J 3619 §112 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2022
17826073 METHODS, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Casio Computer Co., Ltd. SCOLES, PHILIP GRANT 2837 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending May 26, 2022
17694412 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Casio Computer Co., Ltd. QIN, JIANCHUN 2837 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2022

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